interjection
prox
prox
Classical[ˈprɔks]Ecclesiastical[ˈprɔks]
Meaning
- by your leave
Itaque dum enitor, prox, iam paene inquinavi pallium.
c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 5.1.38Prox bona vox, ut aestimo, quasi proba vox.[…]Prox, bona vox, velut quidam praesignificare videtur, ut ait Labeo de iure pontificio L. XI.
[2nd century CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, De Significatione Verborum, published 1839, page 252, line 2; epitomized by Paul the Deacon, 8th c.:
prox (bona vox, Fest. p. 253 Müll.; cf.: prox, bona vox, ut aestimo, quasi proba vox, Paul. ex Fest. p. 252 Müll.), interj.,
I. by your leave, Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 33 Fleck.
Origins
Perhaps related to prex.